The idea behind the JuveRest pillow is that when you sleep on your side on a traditional pillow, your face gets scrunched up against the pillow’s surface, leading to sleep wrinkles.

This polyurethane foam pillow looks a bit blocky, like a Lego pillow. It has a variety of carefully placed hollows and craters to support the crown of the head, down to the jaw and neck, minimizing contact with cheeks and eyes when you’re on your side.

It also has a hollow for the back of your head while you sleep on your back and is supposed to keep your neck and head in proper posture. From a back position, just roll on your side and your head should land in the right place on the pillow for side sleeping, according to the instructions.

What Emily Spicer’s face looks like on a JuveRest pillow. (Emily Spicer/Express-News)

I took a selfie while lying on my regular pillow. Ugh. Indeed, my face scrunches. At least I didn’t drool.

There does seem to be less contact with the side of my face on the JuveRest, so I can see how in theory this would reduce the folding and creasing of the skin, thereby reducing wrinkling.

I just couldn’t sleep well on it.

To be fair, the JuveRest spokeswoman did email me that most people need five to 14 nights to adjust to a new sleeping surface and that “JuveRest is immediately comfortable for most people, however, some experience an adjustment period as their body transitions from an improper sleep posture to a correct one.”

I lasted two nights. I couldn’t just roll over and find the right side-sleeping spot, so I would wake up to get more comfortable. I would get tired of that position and roll onto my back, my neck popping and cracking several times while doing so and waking me up again.

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That was how both nights passed. Maybe my face is smoother, but it’s hard to tell from the sleepless-night bags under my eyes and how I keep wincing at my stiff neck.

Verdict: Though my face is smushed, I think getting enough zzzs and having a neck I can move freely with my regular pillow wins out on this one.

Frownies are hard paper patches that act like “a splint” for the skin, holding your creased skin smooth and flat on the surface while the muscles underneath re-position themselves, according to the brochure.

Doesn’t that sound comfortable?

I tried the patches for the corners of the eyes and mouth as well as the forehead, five in total.

The application process isn’t hard. You tear the pieces you want from the perforated edges, massage the area on your face for 10 to 15 seconds and spray the shiny side of the paper with Rose Water Hydrator, which activates the adhesive and hydrates. Then using two fingers on one hand, smooth out your wrinkle until it’s flat, then apply the patch and gently hold it in place until it really sticks.

The paper looks like that of a grocery bag, but stiffer. With five of these on my face, I looked like a drunken wallpapering experiment. Not even I wanted to go to bed with me like that.

I wore these overnight, and actually, they weren’t really uncomfortable. I was aware they were there, but I could still drink water and sleep on my side.

The next morning, I followed the directions and moistened the patches thoroughly before peeling them off.

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I think some of my skin and definitely some of my face hair peeled off with them. Holy moly — why do these things hurt so much!?

With calming lotion, the redness went away, but my face was sore and tender the rest of the day.

Verdict: The literature says to use every day until you reach your desired result and then three or four days a week to maintain. I just don’t think I could do that without killing any hope for romance at home. And isn’t that part of why we want to look better anyway?

Plus, it hurts. So, no.

Details: Frownies Facial Patches, Corners of Eyes & Mouth, $19.95 for 144 patches; Frownies Facial Patches, Forehead & Between Eyes, $19.95 for 144 patches; Rose Water Hydrator, $12.95 for 2 ounces. Available at Frownies.com and a variety of S.A. stores such as Stein Mart and Whole Foods. For a list, go to Frownies.com.